Mission San Jose High School

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Mission San Jose High School
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Mission San Jose High School
41717 Palm Ave.

Fremont, California
94539

United States
Coordinates 37°32′41″N121°56′02″W / 37.5447°N 121.9338°W / 37.5447; -121.9338
Information
Type Public high school
Opened1964 [1]
School district Fremont Unified School District
CEEB code 050970
PrincipalAmy Perez
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,971 (2021-22) [2]
Campus typeSuburban
Color(s)Green, black, and white    
Nickname Warriors
USNWR ranking80th (2020) [3]
NewspaperThe Smoke Signal
YearbookCostanoan
Feeder schoolsHopkins Junior High School
Website fremontunified.org/msjhs/

Mission San Jose High School (MSJHS or MSJ) is a four-year co-educational public high school founded in 1964. It is located in the Mission San Jose district of Fremont, California, United States. It is one of five comprehensive high schools in the Fremont Unified School District. Mission San Jose High School is the third largest high school in Fremont.

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Academics

In 2023, U.S. News & World Report ranked Mission San Jose High as the 80th best high school in the United States. The school was ranked 8th in California, with an Advanced Placement participation rate of 91%. [3]

The marquee in front of Mission San Jose High School Mission San Jose High School April 2011.jpg
The marquee in front of Mission San Jose High School
Mission San Jose High front entrance with the library building on the left and office on the right MSJH 1.jpg
Mission San Jose High front entrance with the library building on the left and office on the right

The school was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 1987, 1996, and 2008.[ citation needed ]

Students

Demographics

As of the 2023–24 school year, 89.8% of the students were Asian American, 4.5% were European American, 3.2% were Hispanic and 0.3% were African American. [3] According to California School Dashboard, in 2017 MSJHS had 3.8% socioeconomically disadvantaged students and 3.1% English Learners out of its total population of 2003. [4]

Extracurricular activities

Academic competitions

Quiz bowl-style tournaments

In 2008, Mission San Jose's National Ocean Science Bowl Team placed first at the regional competition, advancing to the National Competition and placing second behind Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. [5]

In 2015, Mission San Jose's Ocean Science Bowl team finished fourth in nationals; they attended nationals again in 2017. [6] [7]

In 2022, Mission San Jose's Science Bowl team finished second in Nationals.

Speech and Debate

In 2004–2005, Mission San Jose's Lincoln-Douglas Debate team (also known as OHSODEF) was ranked first in the country. [8] The team won the National Tournament of Champions in 2003 and closed out (having two debaters meet in the final round of) the 2004 Fall Classic tournament at the Greenhill School. [9]

Local (Bay Area) competitions

At the Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium WonderCup Challenge, MSJ has won in four years; three of those wins were in a row (2004–2006). [10]

At the 2024 National Busting Competitions, Ritwik Deshpande and his team finished 1st in all categories, granting a prize money of 10,000 US Dollars towards the school's infrastructure.

Go tournaments

Mission San Jose's Go team took first place at the California High School Go Championships three years in a row (2005–2007). In 2008, the MSJ Go club won first place in the Open Division to become the national champions. In 2010, Mission won first place in Division A at the newly formed Bay Area High School Go Tournament. [11]

Chess tournaments

In 2005, the team tied for first place at the CalNorthYouthChess regionals. In 2000, the team took first at the State Scholastic Championship. [12]

Athletics

Mission San Jose High School belongs to the Mission Valley Athletic League (MVAL), which comprises the five high schools in Fremont as well as Newark Memorial High School in Newark, Logan High School in Union City, and Moreau Catholic in Hayward, CA. The MVAL is a league of the North Coast Section of the California Interscholastic Federation.

Mission High School's championships include badminton (2004-2017 NCS champions), tennis (2004, 2009, and 2021 NCS champions) and swimming (League champions for over 26 consecutive years).[ citation needed ]

In 2009, the boys' team won the NorCal Championships. The following fall, the girls' team had an 84-0 league individual record, first place in the MVAL team tournament, first and third place in the MVAL singles tournament, and a doubles sweep in the MVAL doubles tournament.

In the 2011 season, the girls' golf team placed second at NCS Championships and first at NorCal Championships. In the 2012 season, the team placed first at NCS Championships and third at NorCal Championships. [13]

In the 1978 football season, the football team was the first in MVAL history to win the North Coast Section 4A Varsity Football Championship, going undefeated 12–0. Michael Carnell rushed for a record 2,364 yards and 44 [14] touchdowns in one season. The Warriors also produced former SF 49er and Super Bowl XXIX Champion Gary Plummer. [15] [16]

The team was disbanded following the 2015 season.

Mission's Winter Guard team won Champion status in the 2006 Novice Division competition against fifteen other guard units at Del Oro. The team also placed first at the 2011 NCBA Winterguard Championship at Del Oro in 2011, for the Intermediate Division. Most recently, the winter guard team placed third at the 2022 NCBA Winterguard Championship at Stockton in April 2022 for the Scholastic Regional A Division.

The school colors are green and white and the mascot is the warrior. Its logo was the Mission Peak (a mountain easily visible from campus) until recently, when a new warrior logo was designed and implemented by student vote. The school's previous logo was a feathered arrow, but this was changed in the late 1990s in response to controversies surrounding the use of Native American mascots and symbols by American schools. Currently, the school designates the "Mission Man" as a mascot.

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  12. ↑ "Calchess.org". Archived from the original on April 27, 2006.
  13. ↑ Contra Consta Times "Mission San Jose High Girls Win North Coast Section Golf Championship", San Jose Mercury News , San Jose, 30 October 2012. Retrieved on 10 November 2012.
  14. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2008-06-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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